About
Eyad Abdalla studied engineering at Waterloo and previously worked at Datadog and Shopify. After spending three years in specialty clinics, he founded Plena Health to provide operational support rather than software solutions.
Founder at Plena HealthYC X26
Intro paths
YC
Eyad went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Andrew Miklas, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Plena Health's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Eyad can intro founders to Plena Health's investors below.
Plena Health's investors · 1
Co-founders at Plena Health
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Ahmed Al MudarrisFounder
Experience
- Plena HealthFoundercurrent2025 — present
- DatadogSoftware Engineer2020 — 2025
- DatadogProduct Manager2019 — 2020
- Lifion by ADPInfrastructure Engineer2019Greater New York City Area
- ShopifySoftware Engineer2018Toronto, Canada Area
- ShopifySoftware Engineer2017Toronto, Canada Area
- IBMSoftware Developer2017Ottawa, Canada Area
- KlickWeb Developer2016
Skills & more
Ruby on Rails6JavaScript19Public Speaking16Node.js4Ruby1React.js3Distributed Systems1Cloud Computing1Apache Kafka1Java9jQuery2PHP1
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HTMLCSSC#IllustratorUser Experience DesignManagementProject ManagementResearchSocial MediaResponsive Web DesignLanguages Arabic · English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Eyad Abdalla?
- Eyad Abdalla studied engineering at Waterloo and previously worked at Datadog and Shopify. After spending three years in specialty clinics, he founded Plena Health to provide operational support rather than software solutions.
- Where does Eyad Abdalla work?
- Eyad Abdalla is Founder of Plena Health.
- What companies did Eyad Abdalla found?
- Eyad Abdalla founded Plena Health.
- Where did Eyad Abdalla go to school?
- Eyad Abdalla studied at University of Waterloo (Engineer's Degree, Computer Engineering).
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Shared employers
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Olivier PomelCo-founder & CEO of DatadogAlexis Le-QuocCo-founder & CTO of DatadogKira BusmanInvestor at Index VenturesShardul ShahInvestor at Index VenturesKonstantine BuhlerInvestor at Sequoia CapitalDan FougereInvestor at Index Ventures
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